Learning how animals and plants interact is fundamental to our understanding of the natural world. Discover how the structures of plants and animals help them live in their environments. Look at forests, meadows, ponds, deserts, and other environments, from the treetops to under the ground. Discover how the chain of producers and consumers isnt a race to the top, but a complex web of biological relationships.

Learning how animals and plants interact is fundamental to our understanding of the natural world. Discover how the structures of plants and animals help them live in their environments. Look at forests, meadows, ponds, deserts, and other environments, from the treetops to under the ground. Discover how the chain of producers and consumers isnt a race to the top, but a complex web of biological relationships.

Learning how animals and plants interact is fundamental to our understanding of the natural world. Discover how the structures of plants and animals help them live in their environments. Look at forests, meadows, ponds, deserts, and other environments, from the treetops to under the ground. Discover how the chain of producers and consumers isnt a race to the top, but a complex web of biological relationships.

Soil and Sediment Remediation discusses in detail a whole set of remediative technologies currently available to minimise their impact. Technologies for the treatment of soils and sediments in-situ (landfarming, bioscreens, bioventing, nutrient injection, phytoremediation) and ex-situ (landfarming, bio-heap treatment, soil suspension reactor) will be discussed. The microbiological, process technological and socio-economical aspects of these technologies will be addressed. Special attention will be given to novel biotechnological processes that utilise sulfur cycle conversions, e.g. sulfur and heavy metal removal from soils. Also the potential of phytoremediation will be highlighted. In addition, treatment schemes for the clean-up of polluted megasites, e.g. harbours and Manufactured Gaswork Plants (MGP), will be elaborated. The aim of Soil and Sediment Remediation is to introduce the reader in: the biogeochemical characteristics of soil and sediments- new techniques to study soil/sediment processes (molecular probes, microelectrodes, NMR) clean up technologies for soils polluted with organic (PAH, NAPL, solvents) or inorganic (heavy metals) pollutants- preventative and remediative strategies and technologies available in environmental engineering novel process applications and bioreactor designs for bioremediation the impact of soil pollution on society and its economic importance.

Learning how animals and plants interact is fundamental to our understanding of the natural world. Discover how the structures of plants and animals help them live in their environments. Look at forests, meadows, ponds, deserts, and other environments, from the treetops to under the ground. Discover how the chain of producers and consumers isnt a race to the top, but a complex web of biological relationships.

Plant genomics aims to sequence, characterize, and study the genetic compositions, structures, organizations, functions, and interactions/networks of an entire plant genome. Its development and advances are tightly interconnected with proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, transgenomics, genomic selection, bioinformatics, epigenomics, phenomics, system biology, modern instrumentation, and robotics sciences. Plant genomics has significantly advanced over the past three decades in the land of inexpensive, high-throughput sequencing technologies and fully sequenced over 100 plant genomes. These advances have broad implications in every aspect of plant biology and breeding, powered with novel genomic selection and manipulation tools while generating many grand challenges and tasks ahead. This Plant genomics provides some updated discussions on current advances, challenges, and future perspectives of plant genome studies and applications.

This book examines the key aspects that will define future sustainable energy systems: energy supply, energy storage, security and limited environmental impacts. It clearly explains the need for an integrated engineering approach to sustainable energies, based on mathematical, biogeophysical, and engineering arguments. Resilient and efficient alternatives are compared to non-sustainable options. This book results from the collaboration of 50 international contributors.